More on the world of the anti-mask movement

Following up on Jonathan Montpetit’s recent piece on the topic, La Presse’s Tristan Péloquin wades into the muddy waters of Quebec’s anti-mask movement and what’s behind it. The article gets a little bogged down in a tangent about financial irregularities, but picks up again with pertinent observations about how diverse threads in right-wing and conspiratorial groups are flourishing in separate bubbles inside this movement, including offshoots of QAnon with its bizarre theories about pedophile networks abducting children and how Covid is a hoax perpetrated by Bill Gates. An interesting coda tells about the people quietly watching these groups and reporting on them when necessary.

There were 698 new diagnosed cases of Covid and seven new Covid deaths recorded Saturday in Quebec.